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Until now, the debate over a government-backed insurance plan has been largely partisan, pitting Democrats who support the concept against Republicans who

Pic via arcc-cdac.ca Florida’s Department of Health suggested cutting state funding to crisis pregnancy centers, among other services, to state legislators during a committee meeting last week. The department presented a report on what it sees as possible areas of budget reduction to legislators in the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, as they prepare to make more cuts to the budget during their upcoming session. Crisis pregnancy centers (known as CPCs) are often religious centers created to persuade women to not have abortions.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health report a genetically engineered bacteria common to the vagina can cut HIV infections by 63 percent. The blog IRMA – Rectal Microbicide Advocacy reports on the study: Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues engineered naturally occurring vaginal bacteria to produce the anti-HIV protein cyanovirin-N

American Independent News Network reporters Todd Heywood, of The Michigan Messenger, and Marcos Restrepo, of The Florida Independent, have both reported

President Barack Obama’s proposed cuts to federal heating assistance could impact more than 615,000 low income households in Michigan, advocates warn. Obama

The eight undocumented youth who have been protesting in Atlanta were arrested late this afternoon. Samantha Nawrocki, a spokesperson for One Michigan, said the youth were arrested shortly before 4 p.m. They were protesting a Georgia law which bans undocumented youth from attending state universities.

Erick Erickson of RedState, whose stature in the conservative movement has risen with the Doug Hoffman insurrection, blasts out an announcement of a second

Remember last month, when a Website called Preserve Raptor Jobs began warning that 95,000 jobs would get cut if the Pentagon scrapped the problematic Air Force

Now that Chas Freeman is out of a job -- and this is clearly a win for advocates of Chinese human rights and liberalism and empiricism, and not other issues;

Recently released documents exposing the inner workings of an influential corporate and state lawmaker collaboration called the American Legislative Exchange

The Senate Armed Services Committee might still not have Gen. David Petraeus’s eight-minute statement on the military’s ban on open gay service, but tomorrow

The headlines about stress tests released Thursday seemed sort of reassuring, after all the concern about the banking system going under. Ten banks need more

Just to get an idea of how much money flows through the education industry, a report by the investment banking firm Berkery Noyes calculates that in the first

The Supreme Court returned the case of a Muslim Pakistani immigrant to a lower court, leaving questions about how specific a claim against a government official must be for it to be heard.

Vice Adm. Robert Harward arrived in Afghanistan this fall to take over detention operations for Gen. Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal’s explicit instructions for

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced a bill today that clarifies that victims of the Gulf oil spill can sue any party responsible for the disaster, not

When John Becker of Truth Wins Out, a non-profit that fights anti-gay religious extremism, recently went undercover as a conflicted gay man seeking ex-gay

Can I be real for a moment? I don’t know a thing about what can or should be done about the Somali pirates. It seems as if the unionized crew of the Maersk

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) The House of Representatives’ Office of Congressional Ethics has launched a “preliminary” investigation into Rep. Vern Buchanan, R- Sarasota

Just when you thought the conversation over government spending had moved firmly from the executive branch to the legislative, Christopher Hellman, a military

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A question that intuitively speaks to the voluntariness of Omar Khadr’s statements to interrogators in Bagram (and later Guantanamo) in 2002

One of the points that Defense Secretary Bob Gates emphasized -- arguably, in fact, the key point -- in his Senate testimony last month is the abundant need to

Spending bailout money to lobby for more bailout money might soon become slightly more difficult. Incoming Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is expected to